Echo Bodine Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.
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Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said—that life wasn’t all nice and neat like a book, and life didn’t have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn’t right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn’t I be like him?
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I haven't been reading anything on tour so far, I haven't had a minute. Any moment that I've had recently on the tour has been completely sleeping. But before I left home I was reading Dylan Thomas' book of collected works of poetry. I read a lot of poetry.
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I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.
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I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it.
